Research Grant

Universidade Politécnica de Coimbra; Portugal; On-site; EUR 11,000 - 13,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bolsa de manutenção mensal 1.090,98 €

Seguro social voluntário

Seguro de acidente pessoal

Job summary

A Universidade Politécnica de Coimbra atribui uma bolsa de investigação para licenciados(a) em Engenharia Informática no âmbito do projeto AI4NextGen. O(a) candidato(a) trabalhará no desenvolvimento de métodos de deteção de voz humana e sintética, com validação em datasets públicos e condições de chamadas reais, em estreita colaboração com a WIT Software.

A bolsa mensal de 1.090,98 euros é financiada por fundos europeus e envolve seguros adicionais; a duração é temporária, com início a 15 de

Qualifications

• Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática ou área relacionada, matriculado(a) em mestrado, mestrado integrado ou curso não conferente de grau integrado no plano de estudos de uma instituição de ensino superior.

Responsibilities

• Desenvolver métodos robustos para deteção de voz humana e sintética em contexto de telefonia.
• Treinar e avaliar métodos com datasets públicos de deepfake de voz e validar em condições reais de chamada telefónica.
• Colaborar com a WIT Software paraDataset e aplicações de telecomunicações para validação do modelo.

Education

Bacharel em Engenharia Informática, ou área relacionada

Job description

Organisation/Company Universidade Politécnica de Coimbra Department DGRH Research Field Engineering » Computer engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Bachelor Positions Application Deadline 17 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 15 Nov 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Research Grant for a Bachelor's degree holder within the scope of project no. 24349 “AI4NextGen - Plataforma de Generative AI para a próxima geração das Comunicações Móveis”, with the operation code COMPETE2030-FEDER-02965700, of the Universidade Politécnica de Coimbra, financed under the terms of Notice MPr-2025-4 - SIID - I&D Empresarial - Individual and Copromotion Operations, with financial support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Innovation and Digital Transition Thematic Programme (COMPETE 2030), Portugal 2030 and the European Union.

The work to be carried out aims at the development of robust methods for the detection of human and synthetic voice in a telephone context, a growing problem in the context of digital communications and voice fraud. The main objective is to design solutions with a high generalization capacity, trained and evaluated on public deepfake speech datasets and subsequently validated under realistic telephone call conditions, considering codecs, compression, noise and other degradations typical of telecommunications networks.

The project foresees the use of simulated and real datasets and will be carried out in close collaboration with WIT Software, one of the leading Portuguese companies specialised in the development of applications and services for mobile operators and telecommunications companies.

The work aims to achieve the following general objectives:

• Study of the state of the art in synthetic voice (deepfake speech) detection and in model generalization techniques;
• Development of methods for detecting human and synthetic voice with a high generalization capacity;
• Validation of the methods on public deepfake speech datasets and under realistic telephone call conditions (codecs, compression, noise and other degradations)

Scientific area: Informatics Engineering

Specific Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree holder in Informatics Engineering or in a related área, enrolled in a master’s degree, integrated master’s degree, or enrolled in a non-degree-granting course integrated into the educational program of a higher education institution.

Additional Information

Monthly Maintenance Allowance: 1.090,98 euros, the payment being made monthly by bank transfer.

To this amount is added the voluntary social insurance corresponding to the first contribution tier, should the candidate opt for enrolment, as well as personal accident insurance.

Eligibility criteria

• Bachelor’s degree holder in Informatics Engineering or in a related área, enrolled in a master’s degree, integrated master’s degree, or enrolled in a non-degree-granting course integrated into the educational program of a higher education institution.

Selection process

Deadline of Application Submission: It will be of 10 working days, between 04/11/2026 and 17/11/2026.

Applications must include the following documents:

• Identification, residence, number of identification document and fiscal number.
• Documents proving that the candidate meets the requirements for the respective type of scholarship, such as diploma and proof of enrolment;
• Candidate's motivation letter;
• Curriculum Vitae, including the final average grade of the completed degrees and the grades of all curricular units;

Selection Criteria

Applications will be evaluated on a scale from 0 to 20 points, based on the following weighting:

• Curricular Evaluation (50%), composed of: 50% for the final average grade of the Bachelor's degree, 30% for experience or additional training related to the activities to be carried out, 20% for the motivation letter;
• Interview (50%), to be conducted only with candidates who obtain a Curricular Evaluation score higher than 10 points.

The Jury reserves the right not to select candidates who do not have the appropriate profile to perform the duties.

Jury of Selection:

The jury responsible for the selection process will be composed of the following Professors PhD:

Effective members:

Substitute members:

The final results of the evaluation will be published, through a list ordered alphabetically, by final grade obtained, with all candidates being notified, for the purposes of the prior hearing of interested parties, by email.

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra of UPCoimbra and at WIT Software Country Portugal State/Province Coimbra City Coimbra Postal Code 3030-199 Street Rua Pedro Nunes - Alto de São João Geofield